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Comment Re:What kind of fish? (Score 1) 180

Those are the fish that can move 1/4 mile across dry land to find new places to live.

Well, that sounds like their weak point. Maybe we need to have Springfield Snakefish Days when it's dry and go around clubbing them?

The summary says that they hang out in shallow, grassy waters. Some geek fisher here must have some techie ideas involving radar and shotguns that should help the problem.

Submission + - Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks And Knives 1

An anonymous reader writes: NPR commentator Bonny Wolf has a unigue solution to battle the threat of invasive fish species in our waterways. She proposes we fight them with a knife, fork, and a few lemon wedges. From the article: "Take the , which has made its way into tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. It competes with native species for food, and then eats the native species, not to mention the odd frog or bird, with its mouthful of sharp teeth. It's been called "Fishzilla." It breeds fast, has no natural predators and can grow to be 4 feet long. The northern snakehead hangs out in grassy shallows, making it hard to catch. But a couple of years ago, Maryland started promoting the snakehead as an eating fish. Its harvest has increased from zero to 5,000 pounds a year."

Comment Re:entropy (Score 1) 109

because the "arrow of time" would point two opposite ways in the "meta-universe".

This is a seriously silly question, but has any serious physicist conjectured that the "arrow of time" could have more than two directions? I mean, like going sideways or something? And what would be the bizarre implications of that?

Comment Re:Accuse me a being materialistic whore but... (Score 1) 136

New Washington Post headlines . . .

"Hurricanes to slam the entire US coasts . . . and the stuff in between!" [click here to buy a hurricane survival kit]

"Martians land in Washington and attack the White House!" [click here to buy guns and ammo]

"Ebola epidemic hits US!" [click here to buy skin lightening cream, because only white folks will get the vaccine]

Submission + - Tim Cook is unhappy with Apple's diversity numbers: 70% male, 55% white (apple.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Apple has released a diversity report on the sex and race of its employees. As is common in the tech industry, the majority of Apple's workforce is male — only three out of 10 employees around the globe are female. Broken down, males compose 65 percent of non-tech workers, 80 percent of tech workers, and 72 percent of Apple's leadership.
According to CEO Tim Cook, he is unhappy with Apple's diversity numbers and says Apple is working to improve them: "Apple is committed to transparency, which is why we are publishing statistics about the race and gender makeup of our company. Let me say up front: As CEO, I’m not satisfied with the numbers on this page. They’re not new to us, and we’ve been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we’re committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products."

Comment Old Code (Score 2) 246

You see different footprints from different programmers who have maintained it . . . recognize different personalities in the style and comments . . . you can tell if the project was a joy or a Death March . . . and I always learn how to do something that I didn't know before.

Submission + - IBM Creates Custom-Made Brain-Like Chip

An anonymous reader writes: In a paper published Thursday in Science, IBM describes its creation of a brain-like chip called TrueNorth. It has "4,096 processor cores, and it mimics one million human neurons and 256 million synapses, two of the fundamental biological building blocks that make up the human brain." What's the difference between TrueNorth and traditional processign units? Apparently, TrueNorth encodes data "as patterns of pulses". Already, TrueNorth has a proven 80% accuracy in image recognition with a power consumption efficiency rate beating traditional processing units. Don't look for brain-like chips in the open market any time soon, though. TrueNorth is part of a DARPA research effort that may or may not translate into significant changes in commercial chip architecture and function.

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